[QGIS Commit] r9931 - trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics

[svn_qgis at osgeo.org]

Author: dassau
Date: 2009-01-06 09:30:53 -0500 (Tue, 06 Jan 2009)
New Revision: 9931

Modified:
   trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex
Log:
added some text from VisualChangelog1.0


Modified: trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex
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--- trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex	2009-01-06 11:29:47 UTC (rev 9930)
+++ trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex	2009-01-06 14:30:53 UTC (rev 9931)
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-\section{Quantum GIS 1.0.0}
+\section{Quantum GIS 1.0}
 \pagenumbering{arabic}
 \setcounter{page}{1}
 
-Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a cross-platform (GNU/Linux, MS Windows, Mac OSX) open
-source application with a growing number of common GIS features and
-functions. QGIS is licensed under the GNU General Public License and an
-official member project of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). The
-current official version is 1.0.0, aka "Kore" and was released on January 05,
-2009. 
+Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information
+System (GIS), licensed under the GNU General Public License, that runs on
+GNU/Linux, Unix, Mac OSX, and MS Windows. QGIS supports numerous vector, 
+raster, and database formats and provides a wide variety of plugins to do 
+things like display tracks from your GPS, edit and analyse vector geometries 
+and attribute data, compose print layouts, and much more.
 
-\subsection{History}
+\subsection{History and Facts}
 
-The idea for Quantum GIS was born in the beginning of 2002 when Gary Sherman
-began looking for a GIS viewer for Linux that was fast and supported a wide
-range of data stores. That, coupled with an interest in coding a GIS
-application led to the creation of the project. In the beginning Quantum GIS
-was established as a project on SourceForge in June 2002 with the first,
-mostly non-functioning release on July 19, 2002. This first release supported
-only PostGIS layers.
+QGIS began life in February of 2002, with the first release in June of the
+same year. The initial goal was to create a viewer for PostGIS data that ran
+on Linux. From those humble beginnings, QGIS has become a true cross-platform
+application that runs on all major versions of unix, Linux, as well as Mac
+and Windows. It supports editing and map composition as well as integration
+with GRASS to provide powerful GIS capability. 
 
-Within the last 7 years, the project 
+QGIS 1.0, released in January 2009 provides a stable API from which you can
+develop custom solutions in Python or C++. Even though 1.0 is fresh, there
+are a number of exciting developments underway in both the core application
+and plugins.
 
 \subsection{QGIS Community}